as we know Tech and water don't mix and
so whenever I'm out on the lake enjoying the Summer sun near the water's edge I
always have this anxiety that I'm just going
to I dropped
it and that anxiety doesn't just come from nowhere according to phone insurer
Asurion water related claims go up 80% in the summer months which is great if
you pay for cell phone insurance but let's be real nobody does I sure as held
don't and so if the worst happens that's
it or is it it's why I want to meet a person who
was able to get her phone back and working you could drop it in a lake you
never know her name is Fatima gatsi and her phone's Resurrection made waves
through the tech media quite simply because of how long it's spent
underwater Oh yeah 6 months and now so
here's the phone it's a white iPhone 11
and as you can see it's perfectly in shape it looks almost as good as my new
one but if you look at it like in certain spots like right here you can
definitely see like some rusting that went on from like being underwater but
otherwise it still charges perfectly fine and when I got it back initially um
from clay I took it home the microphone wasn't working speaker was super muffed
this story happened much like you'd expect on a nice day at the end of last
summer with the enticing Prospect of fun on bumper boats very
risky so we're out on the water and then I'm you know enjoying it taking pictures
of the view and then this oncoming boat
actually started spraying water onto me and then I like totally lost balance
freaked out and then I dropped my phone in the water
and it was and I I couldn't even believe it when I dropped it it hit me and I
just like wanted to cry then but more than that I didn't have any backups or
anything oh so you didn't have an iTunes or an iCloud backup at all no I actually
didn't no yeah I did I noticed that for a while I was saying that it's not
backing up but I and I was thinking I have to get to that but I didn't
obviously ever consider that oh today is the day where I'm going to lose
everything and I should have backed it up sooner
so how did she get it back and
working well it was a night in a shining wet suit his name is Clayton helenberg
and he's an avid free diver it's definitely a hobby of mine just a swim
but the more I was swimming and the more like sunglasses and phones and stuff I
was Finding also the more trash we were
finding oh a vape still got some juice
in it but with the trash one can also find treasure and Clayton finds all
sorts of things drones GoPros sunglasses and phones like these two Clayton found
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phones one is an iPhone 10 and the other
an iPhone 7 this in fact was the first
iPhone to get an official IP67 rating thanks to the solid state home button
and the courageous removal of the headphone
jack I think it was a major help in this story the IP code is defined by the
international electrotechnical commission standard number 60 5 to
n oh look they turned on okay sorry if
this is getting a little boring but you've probably seen the IP code on cell
phone spec sheets it has a meaning the first number specifies the level of
protection from solids and the second specifies protection from water so if a
device has a rating of ip11 it means that it's protected against an object
larger than 50 mm or a hand and it's
protected against falling drops of
water Yep this is at least
ip1
well um sorry at IP67 it means that
these are completely dust tight and protected from water Ingress at up to 1
M depth for 30 minutes apple hasn't even stopped there though any iPhone above
the 10s is rated at I p68 which allows
for depths of greater than 1 M so an iPhone 12 is rated up to 6 M 11 Pros are
rated at 4 M and Fatima's 11 at 2 m
which incidentally was about the depth her phone was at for all those
months I guess then what's like the ratio of stuff in pretty decent
condition versus oh it's pretty low it's pretty low so for let's say the 200
pairs of sunglasses I found I probably found 20 that were in usable condition I
would say give or take and then whatever out for the ratio of like phones or Tech
you find under water phone GoPros to start with GoPros always work I have not
found an unworking GoPro yet iPhone 11s I found three of them all three of
worked I have one working iPhone 10 but
um I think it was S8 or S9 that briefly worked and then it decided to shut off
again last year sent two big boxes to a guy in uh think he's in Ontario or
something like that his channel is the phone Guru and he was able to fix a
whole bunch of them actually plan to send him some more in the future when I get some better ones but got to wait for
the summer to people drop some better looking
phones okay so this iPhone 7 uh appears
to be fine um but uh it's locked so I
can't get in obviously uh and then this iPhone 10 well when I first plugged it
in it was boot looping like crazy and I
put it into restore mode and tried updating it cuz I don't want to delete
anything that's on here um but I can't really get that to work uh and if I were
to restore it completely then it means I wouldn't be able to get the person's
data back to them so let's see if we can
reach out to them uh where do I start
yeah so what I do with phones um hers it just turned right on which was kind of
cool but iPhone has a quite a good lock system so I'm not cracking that code
anytime soon so what I do with all phones is I just take the SIM card out
and I plug it into an old phone and I have a SIM card reader and that and it just shows me the phone number that the
phone's registered to and I just just call the phone or text the phone and if
somebody answer is awesome and she answered right away and that was cool
that's how that works okay so I got this Android phone to do this uh so let's um
switch the SIM cards here
okay and take this one out huh uh it's an
AT&T SIM card I wonder what that means
put this in here okay it looks like we got
service there's no number on here it's
it's blank does that mean it's an old SIM card okay so it's an American phone
maybe uh it's not connected to um an
American Network and we live close to the Border let's see if that
works blank darn it I was hoping to get
that phone back okay um that didn't work
so uh let's try the next SIM
card okay it's got service if I try
phoning this
number it's ringing oh my goodness
okay oh my gosh I got some text messages
P the number off the the guy who sent message to this
phone this is a lot harder than I was expecting I mean how did Clayton do it
with Fatima's
phone you got your new phone in December
and then a couple months later what happened it was a normal day I was just
chilling and then I got a text saying hi
my name is Clay um did you lose a cell phone in Harrison Lake so it was just
really really odd that someone was asking me about this thing that happened
6 months ago and knew exactly where I lost it I almost genuinely felt like
someone's trying to I don't know lure me into
somewhere but all it was was Clayton trying to return a phone back to their
rightful owner hopefully with all its photos and memories intact I don't know
like how to feel about receiving something that I was definitely
heartbroken to lose and it was such a stressful time I just felt like a lot of
memories or um pieces of a big time in
my life were just kind of given back to me so I was just mostly grateful for
that and then I was also thinking like now what do I do with the second phone
so what does it feel like when you return a phone to someone it's awesome
uh some of the reactions are just people are in total disbelief sometimes and
yeah it's pretty cool too bad I won't be getting the same reactions myself I
don't have a lot of Apple stuff at all like I used to have an iPod and I was about it but um yeah those iPhone 11s
like apple makes a crazy waterproof phone it's very impressive honestly like
6 months around 10 ft of water it's just crazy two other ones at C us they were
both charged when I found them the guys had lost them the day before but uh yeah
I jumped in and I just clicked the button and it turned on underwater and
there was a background of a dog on it and it was just super
funny so I guess after this whole Oreal
what's the big lesson you've learned back up your phone always get hooked on
it I don't know I assumed cuz the last backup I did was like on iTunes and that
was really lengthy but I didn't know that now you could just still just do it
on the phone just go on iCloud and then just subscribe to it and then it backs
up for you so definitely very easy very affordable process um and if you're ever
out where you might drop your phone put it in a zip pocket just don't take it on
the water
it's reassuring to know that if your iPhone dunks into a shallow Beach or
pool it has a chance of surviving but that doesn't mean you should be careless
because despite there being people like Clayton around 6 months is still an
awful long time to be without a phone thank you for joining us at this
Mac Address from the shores of cultist Lake British Columbia now I'm curious if
you yourself have had any Tales of an iPhone surviving or maybe not surviving
a dunk underwater feel free to share them in the comments below